A white paper by John Vossler, a UNIX and Linux infrastructure consultant, presents a case study of designing two sites for a cluster to prevent loss of function of the cluster in case of a disaster. The paper outlines selecting a co-location hosting company with sites in different cities, setting up the Ethernet and SAN network connections, and how the Sun hardware and Cisco switches were set up and connected.
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Paul Venezia posted a review of the Solaris ZFS on the InfoWorld Test Center in which he stated that after he started working with ZFS, "one thing became clear: the file system of the next 10 years will either be ZFS or something extremely similar. The fluidity, the malleability, and the scalability of ZFS far surpass anything available now on any platform."
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Sun demonstrated its systems management technologies during the 2007 JavaOne Conference held last month in San Francisco. In his blog, Steve Stelting with Sun described this demonstration that illustrated remote administration with groups of servers that performed infrastructure, test and production jobs.
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If you read Paul Venezia's InfoWorld review of Solaris ZFS (article [18234]) and want to learn how to use the file system, this course will fill that need. Course number VC-SA-229-S10 "Solaris 10 ZFS Administration" shows you how to set up, configure, administer and manage this file system.
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